Made of Imagination: Drum Phil

Got a musician's ear and a tinkerer's hand? The Made of Imagination contest, co-sponsored by art site Booooooom, MTV, and Sony Xperia, seeks seriously creative homemade instruments.

Kyoto-Japan-based media artist Ally Mobbs went old-school for the Drum Phil, an analog drum sequencer built from a modified Philips 4407 reel-to-reel tape player.

Paper disks can be played with preprogrammed rhythms, or the stylus-mounted tape heads can be removed and used to manually tap out beats by touching the colored dots. Sound is created by magnetic data stored on credit cards and train tickets. Having trouble picturing the way it works? Watch the video below.